. I've added a few things. Tweaked this and that. Fixed big derps. All changes and additions are live, though there are bound to be grammatical errors in 7-13.
Sep
5th
2015
Should The Teal Changeling be rated teen? · 8:47am Sep 5th, 2015
Did the fight in chapter 6 cross the line? I feel I really skewed reader expectation with that fight, in a negative way...
If I am changing it to teen, the way it's present isn't going to change moving forward, or retroactively. No blood, swears, or porking.
With the first act coming to an end soon, I'm going to update the story's blurb to better express what the story's about, and I was wondering if I should tweak the tags while I was at it, thus the blog.
I think while that fight scene was a bit intense, the story should retain its E rating. Changing the whole story's rating just because of one fight scene seems a bit over the top (to me at least).
Also lets be honest, current kid's shows have people dying in them and are considered fine.
If you decide to keep the E rating, but still feel weird about the fight scene, you could put a warning at the beginning of that particular chapter.
I agree with mellow
I don't think that was bad enough for T rating. The Twilight and Tirek fight as fine after all.
Steven Universe gets away with much darker and more brutal scenes and is still labeled as a kids show. You're fine.
Personally, I think it's fine if it stays E. E is like what G-PG in ratings terms.
Side note, really liking story so far.
Just put up an authors note at the start of the chapter saying its borderline T rating if you aren't going to do anything that could change the rating in the future. If it's just one chapter, people wouldn't mind that change.